REGISTRATION IS OPEN! The 2024 ASDA Fall Seminar will return to the Spa City on September 6-7 for the outstanding program, “The Missing Link: Orofacial Pain and Sleep.” Our featured clinician, Dr. Amy Hartsfield, will present three courses on Friday, September 6 :Course 1: Dental Sleep: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatments of Sleep Breathing Disorders.Course 2: The Brainteasers of a Dental Practice:
Reprinted from ADA email, June 5, 2024: Dear Fellow Leaders: The American Dental Association has closed on the sale of its headquarters at 211 East Chicago Avenue to Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, our largest tenant in recent years. I’m pleased that the ADA will be passing the torch of 211’s storied history and health care
In a move that was not altogether surprising, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) announced on Monday that it would discontinue the Healthy Smiles Dental Managed Care program and return to the previous Fee for Service system beginning on November 1, 2024. The managed care system was implemented in 2018 following a report from the Medicaid Task Force that
After its plan to open a dental school on the Heifer International campus fell through in November 2023, Lyon College announced the Lyon College School of Dental Medicine will be located in Little Rock’s Riverdale neighborhood, in the former Blue Cross and Blue Shield space at 5 Allied Drive. Reprinted from Arkansasonline.com: In the announcement Tuesday, Little Rock Mayor Frank
The American Dental Association (ADA) urges all dental practices to remain vigilant after it was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with information regarding a credible threat to the practices of oral and maxillofacial surgeons. Current Threat Information from the FBIOn Tuesday, May 6, 2024, the FBI informed the ADA and the American Association of Oral and
Officials at the Arkansas Department of Human Services have ceased their Arkansas Medicaid Dental Managed Care vendor procurement process and are currently “reviewing options to either rebid the procurement or to move beneficiaries back to Fee for Service,” DHS spokesman Gavin Lesnick tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Lesnick cites an impasse in the negotiation process, saying that “during active negotiations with
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